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The History of Sexuality, Volume 2 Summary
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2
The Use of Pleasure
by Michel Foucault 1984 304 pages
4.06
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
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After Capitalism Summary
After Capitalism
by David Schweickart 2002 224 pages
4.00
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
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The Order of Things Summary
The Order of Things
An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
by Michel Foucault 1966 416 pages
4.12
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Theory
The Reactionary Mind Summary
The Reactionary Mind
Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin 2011 290 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
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History
Philosophy
Trouble in Paradise Summary
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
by Slavoj Žižek 2014 208 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Inventing the Future Summary
Inventing the Future
Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek 2015 245 pages
3.98
2k+ ratings
Politics
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Philosophy
Living a Feminist Life Summary
Living a Feminist Life
by Sara Ahmed 2017 312 pages
4.32
3k+ ratings
Feminism
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Politics
Liquid Times Summary
Liquid Times
Living in an Age of Uncertainty
by Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
The True Life Summary
The True Life
by Alain Badiou 2016 80 pages
3.61
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Psychology
The People’s Republic of Walmart Summary
The People’s Republic of Walmart
How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips 2019 257 pages
3.90
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto Summary
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
by Slavoj Žižek 2018 70 pages
3.57
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Fully Automated Luxury Communism Summary
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A Manifesto
by Aaron Bastani 2018 278 pages
3.69
2k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Mutual Aid Summary
Mutual Aid
A Factor of Evolution
by Pyotr Kropotkin 1891 234 pages
4.23
3k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Science
The Numbers Game Summary
The Numbers Game
The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life
by Michael Blastland 2008 210 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Mathematics
Science
Economics
On Being Human Summary
On Being Human
by Erich Fromm 1991 180 pages
3.93
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Are Prisons Obsolete? Summary
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis 2003 128 pages
4.52
27k+ ratings
Politics
Race
Social Justice
Gaga Feminism Summary
Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
by J. Jack Halberstam 2012 157 pages
3.55
500+ ratings
Feminism
Queer
Gender
Aspiration Summary
Aspiration
The Agency of Becoming
by Agnes Callard 2018 304 pages
3.72
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
An Actor Prepares Summary
An Actor Prepares
by Constantin Stanislavski 1936 320 pages
4.09
4k+ ratings
Theatre
Film
Drama
Glitch Feminism Summary
Glitch Feminism
A Manifesto
by Legacy Russell 2020 178 pages
3.79
2k+ ratings
Feminism
Theory
Philosophy
Mythologies Summary
Mythologies
by Roland Barthes 1957 160 pages
4.09
16k+ ratings
Philosophy
Essays
Theory
Grading for Equity Summary
Grading for Equity
What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms
by Joe Feldman 2018 296 pages
4.20
1k+ ratings
Education
Teaching
School
Practical Anarchism Summary
Practical Anarchism
A Guide for Daily Life
by Shuli Branson 2022 192 pages
4.03
100+ ratings
Politics
Social Justice
Philosophy
On Fascism Summary
On Fascism
by Matthew C. Macwilliams 2020 208 pages
3.95
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Race
Women, Race & Class Summary
Women, Race & Class
by Angela Y. Davis 1981 271 pages
4.58
31k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Race
Passwords Summary
Passwords
by Jean Baudrillard 2000 120 pages
3.73
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Relational-Cultural Therapy Summary
Relational-Cultural Therapy
by Judith V. Jordan 2009 136 pages
4.43
100+ ratings
Psychology
Counselling
Mental Health
Truth and Method Summary
Truth and Method
by Hans-Georg Gadamer 1960 640 pages
4.17
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
German Literature
How to Read Lacan Summary
How to Read Lacan
by Slavoj Žižek 2006 144 pages
3.95
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
The Communist Manifesto Summary
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx 1848 288 pages
3.67
100k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Foundations of Leninism Summary
The Foundations of Leninism
by Joseph Stalin 1924 123 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Politics
Theory
Philosophy
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Summary
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke 1757 208 pages
3.69
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Art
The Interpretation of Dreams Summary
The Interpretation of Dreams
by Sigmund Freud 1899 630 pages
3.84
77k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Classics
On the Genealogy of Morals Summary
On the Genealogy of Morals
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1887 208 pages
4.13
32k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
The Sublime Object of Ideology Summary
The Sublime Object of Ideology
by Slavoj Žižek 1989 256 pages
4.07
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Haunted Self Summary
The Haunted Self
Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
by Onno van der Hart 2006 440 pages
4.44
100+ ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
Self Help
The Burnout Society Summary
The Burnout Society
by Byung-Chul Han 2010 60 pages
3.88
20k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Discipline and Punish Summary
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault 1975 333 pages
4.23
34k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Sociology
The Social Construction of Reality Summary
The Social Construction of Reality
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
by Peter L. Berger 1966 219 pages
4.12
4k+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Psychology
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Summary
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci 1947 483 pages
4.20
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Silencing the Past Summary
Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 1995 216 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Politics
Dialectic of Enlightenment Summary
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Philosophical Fragments
by Max Horkheimer 1947 304 pages
4.11
7k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
Critique of Judgment Summary
Critique of Judgment
by Immanuel Kant 1790 686 pages
4.09
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Art
Being and Time Summary
Being and Time
by Martin Heidegger 1927 589 pages
4.05
26k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Psychology
Civilization and Its Discontents Summary
Civilization and Its Discontents
by Sigmund Freud 1930 127 pages
3.80
42k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Classics
Imagined Communities Summary
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by Benedict Anderson 1983 224 pages
4.11
15k+ ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Anti-Oedipus Summary
Anti-Oedipus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by Gilles Deleuze 1972 400 pages
4.17
8k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Theory
The Society of the Spectacle Summary
The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord 1967 154 pages
4.03
21k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Minima Moralia Summary
Minima Moralia
Reflections on a Damaged Life
by Theodor W. Adorno 1951 256 pages
4.24
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Liquid Modernity Summary
Liquid Modernity
by Zygmunt Bauman 1999 240 pages
4.11
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
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